Author: Alma J. YatesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780875791265
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Miracle of Miss Willie
Author: Alma J. YatesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780875791265
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Miracle of Miss Willie
Author: Alma J. YatesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781573450706
Category : Latter Day Saints
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A new English teacher at the high school in Snowflake, Arizona, changes the lives of three rambunctious football players.
Miss Willie
Author: Willie Elmore GlassPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glass, Willie Elmore
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Miss Willie (Peoples Book Club, 1951).
Author: Janice Holt GilesMiss Willie
Author: Janice Holt GilesPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813108315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Miss Willie, first published in 1951, is the second novel in Janice Holt Giles's Piney Ridge trilogy, which includes also The Enduring Hills and Tara's Healing. Although the plot is fictional, the central character is based on Giles's mother and some of the episodes are drawn from her life. This is the story of a dedicated teacher who moves to the hills of Kentucky to teach in a one-room schoolhouse at Piney Ridge. Zealously she tries to change the ways of the stubborn and proud Appalachian people - but to no avail. They listen to her crazy ideas about sanitation and other foolishness because to argue would be rude. But in the end they quietly go about their accustomed ways. Ultimately Miss Willie realizes that the hill customs have a beauty and dignity of their own and that some of her efforts to reform them were ill-conceived. Her warmth, generosity, and humor help her bridge the gap and find fulfillment in Piney Ridge. This is a story of reconciliation and the coming together of two different ways of life. Above all, it is a story of people and of the land to which they belong.
Miss Willie
Author: Janice Holt GilesSquint
Author: Jose P. RamirezPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 160473339X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Lying in a hospital bed, José P. Ramirez, Jr. (b. 1948) almost lost everything because of a misunderstood disease. When the health department doctor gave him the Handbook for Persons with Leprosy, Ramirez learned his fate. Such a diagnosis in 1968 meant exile and hospitalization in the only leprosarium in the continental United States—Carville, Louisiana, 750 miles from his home in Laredo, Texas. In Squint: My Journey with Leprosy, Ramirez recalls being taken from his family in a hearse and thrown into a world filled with fear. He and his loved ones struggled against the stigma associated with the term “leper” and against beliefs that the disease was a punishment from God, that his illness was highly communicable, and that persons with Hansen's disease had to be banished from their communities. His disease not only meant separation from the girlfriend who would later become his wife, but also a derailment of all life's goals. In his struggle Ramirez overcame barriers both real and imagined and eventually became an international advocate on behalf of persons with disabilities. In Squint, titled for the sliver of a window through which persons with leprosy in medieval times were allowed to view Mass but not participate, Ramirez tells a story of love and perseverance over incredible odds.
Tupelo Man
Author: Robert BladePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617036285
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The train to Winona -- Looking for work -- "I find I cannot work for the other fellow" -- A strike at the mill -- The Memphis baby market -- The war in Florida -- Two successes and a flop -- Satisfaction guaranteed -- "Eight or nine, please" -- Subversiveness in most all of its forms -- Things to be done -- A ripe area at the time -- Listening to Mr. McLean -- Good measure, pressed down -- Once more around Highland Circle.
Dream World
Author: William Charles KrebsPublisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1478745398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The Anderson’s are in Ocorlampa. Florida to look at the college for their daughter, Liz. They saw their daughter move into a family home of the Wilson’s At the same time a young man, Willie, has come to Florida to settle in so he can go to the local college. He finds a room with an elderly widow. Both of these young people find jobs at “Dream World” where they are destined to meet. Therefore, Liz and Willie, and begin dating. Neither are very experienced in dating, so it is new for them. They fall in love, but Willie gets scared as he is not ready for marriage yet, so he drops Liz without any explanation. Sue, who fancies herself ‘the complete woman’ pursues Willie. She does not think Liz is right for Willie and they have heated relationship. Liz is puzzled. Willie does not love Sue, and by Christmas has broken up with her, and then sets out to get Liz back. This takes some maneuvering to get Liz back, and signs up to be in the same class in the new term. Another young man, Mike, who is in the class becomes competition for Willie. The three of them end up going to lunch together. There is much lively discussion in class. Mike also got to know Sue. Willie & Mike got into a fight, and Sue claimed they were fighting over her. Read the book to see how it turns out.
The Last Juror
Author: John GrishamPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0440246024
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, "life" didn't necessarily mean "life," and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!